The impact of rainfall on soil moisture dynamics in a foggy desert

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Li, Bonan ^a   Wang, Lixin ^a   Kaseke, Kudzai F ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Seely, Mary K ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; DESERT; SAND; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOIL AND SOIL RELATED PHENOMENA; SOIL FIELD CAPACITY; SOIL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL HYGROSCOPIC POINT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL POROSITY; SOIL TEXTURE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VEGETATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; CHEMISTRY; DESERT CLIMATE; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DESERT CLIMATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SOIL;

EID: 84992413319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164982     Document Type: Article

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